From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 17:19:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC2E037B401 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.warpcore.org (shiva.warpcore.org [208.2.70.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0AD43FCB for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:19:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drevil@warpcore.org) Received: from [65.26.140.154] (CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com [65.26.140.154]) by shiva.warpcore.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h750IQdv030395; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:18:26 -0500 From: Shawn To: Travis Troyer In-Reply-To: <200308030016.49936.Charlie & <>> References: <200308030016.49936.Charlie & <>> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://drevil.warpcore.org/ Message-Id: <1060042706.1585.3.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 04 Aug 2003 19:18:26 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative Soundblaster Live and FreeBSD 5.1-Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 00:19:09 -0000 On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 00:20, Travis Troyer wrote: > I have a Creative Soundblaster Live card, and I have been searching for > information about using it with FreeBSD, but I haven't been able to come up > with much. I was hoping somebody has had some luck recently with getting > front and rear output with this card, or has at least been able to find a way > to adjust the bass and treble (by default they seem extremely high). > > Any information would be appreciated. Your best bet for full featured drivers is http://www.opensound.com/ That's the only way under FreeBSD (that I know of) that you'll get a full featured mixer (with bass / treble control) and rear outputs properly. There are two developers that I know of that are trying to create a better Audigy driver for FreeBSD 5.x that will have bass and treble control, but other than that... The Linux ALSA Project is the only project I know of currently that has fairly good support for front + rear outputs for the Creative Series of cards. Personally, I've never cared for ALSA, and am somewhat distraught that many future 'free' applications may use the ALSA API instead of the OSS API, putting many of us out in the cold figuratively speaking. Obviously, most of these applications are open source in one way or another and can be ported to OSS, but I digress... -- Shawn http://drevil.warpcore.org/